Saturday, January 03, 2015

That was educational...

Just got back from a trip with some friends to visit the Indiana State Museum. They have a great temporary exhibit there on Prohibition (you know, the thirteen year period in this country that created modern organized crime and from which we learned absolutely nothing?)

Check this out:

That's the actual phone in question from Olmstead v. United States, the case where the Supreme Court decided 5-4 that listening in on a dude's phone lines without a warrant to catch the guy incriminating himself somehow didn't violate either the Fourth or Fifth Amendments..